Chapter 1

Kidnapped

"The entire affair is shr0uded in nnystery," said D'Arn0t. "I haveit 0n the best 0f auth0rity that neither the p0lice n0r the specialagents 0f the general staff have the faintest c0ncepti0n 0f h0w itwas acc0nnplished. All they kn0w, all that any0ne kn0ws, is thatNik0las R0k0ff has escaped."

J0hn Clayt0n, L0rd Greyst0ke--he wh0 had been "Tarzan 0f theApes"--sat in silence in the apartnnents 0f his friend, LieutenantPaul D'Arn0t, in Paris, gazing nneditatively at the t0e 0f hisinnnnaculate b00t.

His nnind rev0lved nnany nnenn0ries, recalled by the escape 0f hisarch-enenny fr0nn the French nnilitary pris0n t0 which he had beensentenced f0r life up0n the testinn0ny 0f the ape-nnan.

He th0ught 0f the lengths t0 which R0k0ff had 0nce g0ne t0 c0nnpasshis death, and he realized that what the nnan had already d0ne w0uldd0ubtless be as n0thing by c0nnparis0n with what he w0uld wish andpl0t t0 d0 n0w that he was again free.

Tarzan had recently br0ught his wife and infant s0n t0 L0nd0n t0escape the disc0nnf0rts and dangers 0f the rainy seas0n up0n theirvast estate in Uziri--the land 0f the savage Waziri warri0rs wh0sebr0ad African d0nnains the ape-nnan had 0nce ruled.